ISSUE 44.
All the colours:
You didn't ...
then you did ...
inside all your colours.
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Listen.
A playlist for all the colours ↴
Think.
"‘Meanjin Papers’ was our journal’s original name, and over the years came to denote our lead essay. Since Winter 2023, The Meanjin Paper is the piece by a First Nations Elder that opens each edition offering a story of place, so that we always begin by listening to Elders."
– Meanjin
Meanjin's new Autumn edition begins with an incredible, prose-like, story from senior Eastern Arrernte man Anyume John Kemarre Cavanagh. A long, ecological poem demonstrating profound interconnection.
↯ READ: Different Plants for Different Meanings ↯
Feel.
"As the world falters, threatening native ecosystems and Indigenous lifeways, acclaimed Australian Aboriginal author Alexis Wright turns inward to the dwelling place of ancestral story."
– Emergence Magazine
By now it's obvious how much we adore Emergence Magazine. This essay from Waanyi woman Alexis Wright, winner of the Miles Franklin Award and Stella Prize, is so good. The best part, you can listen to her reading the entire thing like an audiobook.
↯ LISTEN/READ: The Inward Migration in Apocalyptic Times by Alexis Wright ↯
Wonder.
If natural winemaking has a homeland it's Georgia. Many relate to wine as their blood, and through centuries of occupation and oppression the Georgian people have managed to retain their ancestral winemaking tradition.
This free (!) documentary is all about the people today who are keeping this history alive, and making wildy energetic natural wines, fermented underground in quevri.
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